About OSA's Optics InfoBase

Most Cited. Highest Quality Global Reach.

Access the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content via OSA's Digital Library, Optics InfoBase. This cutting-edge repository includes all of OSA's content, and complements it with key co-publications. With more than 272,000 articles including conference papers from 470 conferences, OSA's content covers a breadth of disciplines. It is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics research and receives the highest number of article citations (41%) than any other publisher within the Optics category of the 2014 Journal Citation Report ® (Thomson Reuters, 2014).

Articles: Invited, long review articles with internal navigational links and external reference linking, peer-reviewed tutorials with multimedia enhancements, and peer-reviewed letters to the editor and replies pertaining to published review articles or tutorials.

Topic scope: Coverage encompasses comprehensive review articles and multimedia tutorials appropriate for students, researchers, faculty, business professionals and engineers. Authoritative content covers advances in all areas of optics and photonics from fundamental science to engineering applications, including materials, devices, and systems. Submissions of long reviews and tutorials are invited only. Tutorials feature interactive components such as animation and video to maximize their reach.

Topic scope: A highly regarded, premium quality must read for everyone in the optics field that offers applications-centered research in optics, photonics, imaging, and sensing. Topics germane to the journal include optical technology, lasers, photonics, environmental optics, and information processing.

Topic scope: Applied Spectroscopy covers applications in analytical chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, and chemical characterization. It is published by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and available from SAS and OSA.

Topic scope: COL is one of the leading journals for optics in China. Published in English, it promotes the generation, application, and archiving of knowledge in optics and disseminates research worldwide. Its subject coverage includes fiber optics and optical communications, lasers and laser optics, nonlinear optics, image processing, instrumentation, measurement and metrology, integrated optics, materials, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, etc.

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This publication covers the theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing and application of information displays and aspects of display technology that emphasize the progress in device engineering, device design, materials, electronics, physics and reliability aspects of displays and the application of displays. JDT is a joint publishing effort of the IEEE and OSA.

Topic scope: Contains theoretical and experimental papers on such topics as fiber and cable technologies; active and passive guided wave components such as light sources, detectors, repeaters, switches, and fiber sensors; integrated optics and optoelectronics, systems and subsystems, networks; and switching. New applications and unique field trials are also included. JLT is a joint publishing effort of the IEEE and OSA.

Topic scope: All aspects of optical networking including network architectures, performance, protocols, and algorithms, as well as networking aspects of devices and components, the physical layer, and cross-layer interactions. JOCN is a joint publishing effort of the OSA and IEEE.

Topic scope: The Journal of Optical Networking (JON) was published monthly by The Optical Society from January 2002 to May 2009. The scope of JON is now covered in the Journal of Optical Networking and Communications (JOCN).

ISSN: 0030-3941
CODEN: JOSA
Issues Per Volume: 12
Volumes Per Year: 1
Frequency: No longer published. Available online.
Topic scope: JOSA was published by The Optical Society from January 1917 to December 1983 before dividing into JOSA A: Optics and Image Science and JOSA B: Optical Physics in 1984.

Topic scope: The journal publishes papers reporting recent advances, state-of-the-art research and development results in all areas of optical science and technology. Original contributions in all technical fields of optics such as optical materials, optical devices, optical systems, and/or topics related to theorectical and experimental aspects of new principles are welcome. JOSK is published in English by the Optical Society of Korea (OSK) and is made available through Optics InfoBase in partnership with OSA.

Topic scope: The journal publishes design details of a diversity of optical instruments, along with a strong section on computational optics useful to engineers, mathematicians, and physicists, as well as optical scientists. Issues of the English translation volume appear at the same time as the Russian language edition, Opticheskii Zhurnal.

Topic scope: A new open-access journal that focuses on the rapid dissemination of high-impact results in all areas of optics and photonics. Optica is a dedicated venue for authors to publish high-profile research in both fundamental and applied optics and photonics.

Topic scope: The journal scope encompasses synthesis, processing and characterization of materials for applications in optics and photonics. Topics include: advances in novel optical materials; their properties, modeling, synthesis and fabrication techniques; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices.

Topic scope: OSA's premiere news magazine that provides in-depth coverage of recent developments in the field of optics and informative pieces on a variety of topics such as science and society, education, technology, business and professional development.

Topic scope: Peer-reviewed articles that emphasize scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics. The Energy Express supplement reports research on the science and engineering of light and its impact on sustainable energy development, the environment, and green technologies.